[{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/","section":"Blog","summary":"","title":"Blog","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/blowfish/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Blowfish","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/career/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Career","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/comptia/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Comptia","type":"tags"},{"content":" Documenting the journey from CompTIA to RHCSA — one lab, one cert, one post at a time. ","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"fionnlinux","summary":"","title":"fionnlinux","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/homelab/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Homelab","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/hugo/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Hugo","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/linux/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Linux","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/open-source/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Open-Source","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"Welcome to fionnlinux.com — glad you found your way here. Whether you stumbled across this by accident or you\u0026rsquo;re on a similar journey yourself, I hope you find something useful here.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve been planning this site for a few months now and have finally been able to make it happen. I\u0026rsquo;m aiming for one to two posts a month — nothing too ambitious, but enough to keep me honest and engaged with my learning. Hopefully this site holds me to that.\nReasons Behind The Site Build # There are a few reasons I started this site and I\u0026rsquo;d like to share them all with you.\nI\u0026rsquo;m working through the CompTIA certification pathway — ITF+ and A+ done, Network+ in progress, Security+ and RHCSA on the horizon. One of the best ways to reinforce learning is to document it. Through this process my goal is to understand the subject matter enough to be able to explain it clearly to somebody else. This is a vital skill in enterprise IT environments where you need to articulate clearly what is happening. This site is that test, applied publicly.\nFrom the start I wanted to do things the correct way — building good habits before bad ones have a chance to form. It\u0026rsquo;s easier to learn something correctly the first time than to unlearn it later on down the line. That thinking shapes how I approach every certification, every homelab, and every post that I make on this site.\nMore Than Just Certifications # Building this site has been as much a part of the learning as the certifications themselves. Hugo, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines — every time I push a change to GitHub the site builds and deploys automatically. That\u0026rsquo;s not just convenient, it\u0026rsquo;s intentional. CI/CD and version control with Git appear consistently across modern IT job postings and I\u0026rsquo;d rather learn them by doing something real and personal than follow a tutorial I\u0026rsquo;ll forget the next day. Everything here is built with open source tools, managed from the terminal, and documented as I go. That\u0026rsquo;s not just a preference — it\u0026rsquo;s part of the learning.\nAn Online CV That Actually Shows Something # Certificates tell an employer what you know on paper. This site is my chance to show how I think, how I work, and what I am actually building toward. For someone pivoting into IT from a completely different field — which is exactly where I am — that matters.\nMy background is in electrical installation and manufacturing. Not a traditional IT entry point. This site is part of how I bridge that gap — demonstrating practical skills alongside the certifications, in public, where anyone can see the work.\nLearning in Public # I\u0026rsquo;ll get things wrong on here. That\u0026rsquo;s not something I\u0026rsquo;m trying to hide — it\u0026rsquo;s part of the process. If someone with more experience spots a mistake or a better way of doing something I\u0026rsquo;d genuinely welcome that. Learning in public means being open to being corrected, and I\u0026rsquo;d rather be corrected early than carry a bad habit forward.\nIf you\u0026rsquo;ve landed here because you\u0026rsquo;re also trying to pivot into IT from somewhere else entirely — this site is partly for you too. I\u0026rsquo;m not an expert documenting what I already know. I\u0026rsquo;m someone figuring it out and writing it down as I go.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s what fionnlinux.com is. A working journal, an online CV, and a small contribution back to the open source community that is helping me get where I want to go.\nThis site is built using the Blowfish theme for Hugo, created by Nuno Coração. It\u0026rsquo;s a beautifully crafted open source theme and I can\u0026rsquo;t recommend it enough. If you\u0026rsquo;re looking to build your own Hugo site, start there. ","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/why-i-started-fionnlinux/","section":"Blog","summary":"","title":"Why I Started fionnlinux.com","type":"posts"},{"content":" Who I Am # Linux enthusiast building toward a career in enterprise IT, with a long-term goal of working within the Red Hat ecosystem. The path isn\u0026rsquo;t rigidly mapped yet — whether that means IT helpdesk, SOC analyst work, or junior linux administration work, the foundation is the same. Learn the fundamentals properly, understand how things actually work rather than just following steps, and build from there.\nSecurity thinking runs through everything I do — not as a separate concern but as part of how I approach every system and decision.\nFour year electrical installation apprenticeship gave me a methodical approach to systems and problem solving. Years running production lines in manufacturing taught me how real operational environments work under pressure. That grounding informs how I think about Linux, infrastructure, and reliability — systems that have to work, not just work in the lab.\nWhat This Site Is # A working journal. Every certificate studied, homelab built, and command line tool configured gets documented here. Written for anyone following a similar path — and for future me when I forget how I did something.\nIf something I document saves someone else an hour of troubleshooting, that\u0026rsquo;s reason enough to write it up.\nThe Journey # Status Certification ✅ Complete CompTIA ITF+ ✅ Complete CompTIA A+ 🔄 In Progress CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) 📋 Planned CompTIA Security+ 📋 Planned RHCSA EX200 What I Run # Daily driver: Fedora KDE Servers: Rocky Linux Homelab goals: Wazuh, OPNsense, WireGuard, Podman Learning: Ansible, Python, and the tools that matter Philosophy: Self-hosted, open source, privacy first This site: Hugo static site generator + Blowfish theme, source on GitHub and Codeberg, deployed automatically via GitHub Actions to GitHub Pages Find Me # GitHub: github.com/fionnlinux Codeberg: codeberg.org/fionnlinux ","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/about/","section":"fionnlinux","summary":"","title":"About","type":"page"},{"content":"This page documents the projects I am actively building and learning from. Each one is a practical extension of my studies — real tools, real workflows, and real problems to solve. As my skills grow so will this page.\nfionnlinux.com # This site itself. Built with Hugo static site generator and the Blowfish theme, source mirrored on GitHub and Codeberg, deployed automatically via GitHub Actions to GitHub Pages.\nGitHub: github.com/fionnlinux/fionnlinux.com Codeberg: codeberg.org/fionnlinux/fionnlinux.com Stack: Hugo, Blowfish, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages More projects coming as the homelab and certification journey progresses.\n","date":"19 May 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/","section":"fionnlinux","summary":"","title":"Projects","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"}]